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- abigail hobbs | n/a,
- roxas | the key of destiny,
- † agent york | the interloper,
- † april ludgate | janet snakehole,
- † athos | n/a,
- † bela talbot | n/a,
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- † isaac gates | felix,
- † jeff winger | wingman,
- † jo harvelle | n/a,
- † john watson | n/a,
- † kitty jones | n/a,
- † lucy pevensie | the valiant,
- † mathieu carver | shadow,
- † meetra surik | the exile,
- † qubit | n/a,
- † raina | n/a,
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- † will graham | wolf trap
six { text } ego
So on a scale of one to awesome, one being useless as a slicker in the Sahara and awesome being ten: how useful is/are your power(s)?
Idle curiosity. Must be Tuesday.
Checked the newspaper, it is actually Tuesday.
[ that was handy and this, as she's walking to the bus stop from the porter, again, seems more expedient than texting everyone she knows. it only seems to be a day or so, so maybe they won't have even noticed.
ha!
anyway abigail is back from her power update! ]
Idle curiosity. Must be Tuesday.
Checked the newspaper, it is actually Tuesday.
[ that was handy and this, as she's walking to the bus stop from the porter, again, seems more expedient than texting everyone she knows. it only seems to be a day or so, so maybe they won't have even noticed.
ha!
anyway abigail is back from her power update! ]
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Ah. Well. Yes, point taken.
The invulnerability might come in handy there, though.
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[He's not trying to be morbid, but a sudden thought - ]
Maybe that's why I got it. True irony.
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Is that what happened? Before you were ported in?
ditto
My boss gave me the day off to be with my family, since I'd just joined the army. And on the way home there was this girl, and I stopped to talk to her but this bus came out of nowhere and I just
[b r e a t h e]
She was fine. She stayed with me the whole time. And I thought for awhile maybe I'd make it, because I've seen what my friends can do. They tried their best.
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[That means it wasn't even a quick death. It was one of those messy, lingering, suffering deaths. No wonder George had been so messed up when he first arrived... but even then, all he'd been able to talk about at first was his friend. Izzie.]
The girl you saved - she wasn't someone you knew?
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[He'd at least had the chance to make peace with what was happening, during all of those hours. But he's certainly glad that they're having this talk via text, rather than video, or else he's not sure he could get the words out.]
I'd like to say I'd do it again, but I don't know. Maybe if I could say goodbye first.
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You're a hero to her, George.
[It made a difference to that one.]
That kind of instinct can't be overthought. It dissolves when exposed to reason. But what matters is that, in that split second, you were willing to do whatever it took to save her. That's a rarer quality than you'd think. Not everyone's capable of it.
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[The answer only comes after several minutes of radio silence. The words hit George hard in the gut, and he has to take a deep breath to keep his eyes from watering up on him. He never wanted to be a hero. He never wanted to matter that way, he just wanted to help people. And he wonders for a moment if giving his life for this one girl is worth the lives he won't be able to save overseas. But he has to believe that that's not true, that his death wasn't a mistake.]
I hope I can do the same here. I've never been brave, really.
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I think you're braver than you realize. Bravery's not the absence of fear, it's the ability to keep going in spite of it.
ahhh i never got this notif wtf
[Apologies for the formality, Qubit. But you're reminding George a bit of his old Chief.]
how dare you dw
Chin up, all right?
<3